Results tagged “bombthreat”

At about 12:30 p.m., a suspicious package prompted police to shut down the area round Santa Monica Blve and Avenue of the Stars in Century City. The bomb squad responded, but as of 2:45 p.m., there was no word on the status of the incident, according to LAPD Media Relations. This unfortunately is a regular occurrence. The area around the Federal Building has been shut down a handful of times in the past and City Hall on Monday afternoon after suspicious packages were noticed. It should be emphasized that suspicious packages are not bomb threats as rumored on Twitter. A bomb threat is basically when someone calls in the threat, according to the LAPD. A suspicious package is something noticed by a citizen or authority and makes the police aware of its location. UPDATE: As of 3:21 p.m., LAPD Media Relations was notified that the incident was cleared.

A bomb threat called in at around 4 o'clock this morning indicated there was a pipe bomb at the Pershing Square Metro station. The call led "sheriff's deputies and police to shut down the facility," at 5th and Hill in Downtown, according to the Press-Telegram. Although Metro's Red Line trains were operational this morning they were "bypassing the Pershing Square stop," up until around 5:42, when "Bomb squad investigators and police dogs [who had] rushed to the scene to investigate the threat" determined it was a false alarm. A similar false alarm occurred at the Pershing Square station in March of 2007.

For the second time in two months, the MGM Tower in Century City has been evacuated after a bomb threat. "Please be advised that MGM Tower has received a bomb threat. Building Management and the Los Angeles Police Department have been notified," an 11:35 a.m. MGM e-mail obtained by Defamer said. "As a precaution, we have decided to evacuate the building effective immediately until approximately 2:00 pm. You will be evacuated by your Floor Wardens." UPDATE: According to LAPD Media Relations, who says they are notified of all bomb threats, the only threat today came from Northeast Division. One also occurred last night in Harbor. During August's bomb threat, LAPD could not confirm that one was happening either.

2,000 DWP customers lost power today in Sun Valley. At noon, power was threatened to be cut from large energy consumers. But as the afternoon progressed, the Stage 2 was unlikely to happen. Yes, this is a heat wave. At age 18, having a DUI conviction, being a tagger and dealing in drugs is bound to get you caught up in murder charges in Van Nuys. A brush fire broke out in Castaic today...

This morning students at Sonora High in La Habra had a break from school after authorities received a bomb threat at 7:30am. A "suspicious duffel bag" was found and removed; nobody was hurt. No word on what was found in the duffel bag, or if they blew it up, like they sometimes do.

A Garden Grove High School student was arrested, CBS-2 reported yesterday, for planning to plant a bomb at school. Friends say he wasn't really going to plant a bomb.